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Emerging Services Help Hospice Patients Reduce Anxiety About Pets’ Future

Hospice News

The organization also deploys volunteers to help families care for animals in the home. “In In our quest to provide the absolute highest level of patient care, we saw the need to fully incorporate pets into our care model,” Crawford said in a blog post. We can get pets to grooming and veterinary appointments.

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Lawsuits That Don’t Involve Patient Care Can Still Involve Nurses

Nurse.com

Most of my blogs over the years have examined conduct directly related to nursing practice and focused on nurses who have been named in professional negligence lawsuits or who were called as expert witnesses. But sometimes nurses have a role in a lawsuit that has nothing to do with patient care, as the following case illustrates.

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4 Strategies to differentiate yourself from competitors in home health  

AlayaCare

Scott Herman, CEO of Elara Caring , oversees a home care business spanning 17 states with over 25,000 caregivers and 60,000 patients. In an interview with Home Health Care News Herman discussed some of the strategic principles that have helped his organization succeed.

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Healthy Workforce Top Articles and Podcasts from 2023

Healthy Workforce Institute

Healthy Workforce’s Top Articles in 2023 I’ve been blogging and writing articles since I started this company in 2011. The following represents our three most popular blog articles of the year. As we wrap up this year, we’d like to share our top articles and podcasts; resources, and a few other goodies with you.

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CSI Academy Teams to Focus on Implementing HWE Standards

Daily Nurse

The HWE standards are the cornerstone of AACN’s comprehensive HWE initiative, a long-term commitment to creating environments where nurses can provide the highest standards of safe, compassionate patient care while being fulfilled at work. We aim to change that.”

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The Call for Greater Autonomy in Nursing

Nurse.com

With autonomy, a nurse can act on patient care matters without approval from other members of the healthcare team, including physicians. The nurses who received frequent patient experience reports and experienced quality improvement efforts as integrated into patient care did not report feeling burned out.

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Honor Preceptors for the Difference They Make

Nurse.com

Preceptors enjoy sharing with less experienced nurses the tips and tricks that can make nursing life easier and patient care more satisfying — testimony that the adage “nurses eat their young” isn’t always true. Download the Nurse.com social networking app. Comment below and talk to your fellow nurses about this topic.